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11-626: The Maritime Hall is a historic 3,000-capacity concert hall in San Francisco 's South of Market neighborhood that operated from 1995 through 2001 as a popular music venue and nightclub . It was located at 450 Harrison Street (at First Street) at the Sailors Union of the Pacific building. Maritime Hall Productions, a project of 1960s-era San Francisco musician and club promoter Boots Hughston, began producing rock concerts at

22-650: A cue from the Avalon and the Fillmore in days past, the company revived the art of the concert poster, commissioning designs from psychedelic artists Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse , Alton Kelley and Jim Phillips, as well as contemporary graffiti artists . From the start the club struggled to operate a large independent venue in San Francisco. Maritime Hall had difficulty with bookings, advertising, and ticket sales, which it attributed to unfair competition from

33-421: A series of semi-circular seating shelves in the theatre , divided by broad 'belts', called diazomata , with eleven rows of seats between each. The audience in a modern theatre are usually separated from the performers by the proscenium arch , although other types of stage are common. The price charged for seats in each part of the auditorium (known in the industry as the house ) usually varies according to

44-709: The Maritime Hall in October, 1995. The venue was also known initially as the Family Dog, in tribute to an earlier production company and hippie commune of that name run by Chet Helms , former owner of the Avalon Ballroom . Over the next six years the company, renamed 2b1 Productions, produced 721 shows at the Maritime Hall, featuring many major current acts for heavy metal , Industrial , reggae , punk rock , African music , and other genres. Taking

55-1337: The city's premier music promoter, Bill Graham Presents . For example, Bass Ticket Outlet, the largest ticket retailer in the West Coast, refused to carry their tickets . In response, 2b1 opened its own network of 24 service charge -free outlets, with a homemade bar code printing system considered the first for a venue. Artists and talent agents who dealt with the club found themselves blacklisted from other venues. Nevertheless, they were able to attract such notable acts as Zero, The Dixie Dregs , Lee 'Scratch' Perry , Beastie Boys , Blackalicious , Latyrx , James Brown , Willie Nelson , Merle Haggard , Herbie Hancock , Black Uhuru , The Chemical Brothers , The Crystal Method , Motörhead , Los Van Van , Jay-Z , Eminem , Wu-Tang Clan , Papa Roach , Incubus , Vinyl , Ozomatli , Sublime , Marty Teboe Group , Bad Religion , Rammstein , Front Line Assembly , The String Cheese Incident , Sound Tribe Sector 9 , Wyclef Jean , Goodie Mob , The Roots , Ol' Dirty Bastard , Kool Keith , Testament , and Galactic . The club also hosted raves , performance art , and charity benefits, and experimented with live internet broadcasts, and kept an archive of 24-track recordings and videotapes of nearly every performance. In

66-466: The club succumbed to rising real estate prices during the dot-com bubble . It lost its lease in 2001 when the building owner raised the rent in expectation of renting the space out for business use. The production company continues to release and distribute approximately forty CD titles under the "Live from Maritime Hall" name. Auditorium An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres ,

77-505: The former Buffalo Memorial Auditorium . Police precinct In the United States, a police precinct or ward is a geographical area patrolled by a police force. The term "precinct" may also refer to the main police station for such a geographical area. In many countries, it is called police jurisdiction . Practices and cultures of policing often vary considerably from one precinct to another. Police departments using

88-466: The late 1990s the club attracted the attention of notorious SOMA police captain Dennis Martel, who at the urging of residents moving into new upscale lofts in the area was orchestrating efforts to shut down all of the major nightclubs and performance venues in his precinct . After a series of raids and efforts to revoke their entertainment permit, all of which the club was able to resist in court,

99-457: The number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens . Auditoriums can be found in entertainment venues, community halls, and theaters, and may be used for rehearsal, presentation, performing arts productions, or as a learning space . The term is taken from Latin (from audītōrium , from audītōrius ("pertaining to hearing")); the concept is taken from the Greek auditorium, which had

110-429: The police were finally able to obtain a one-month suspension of the club's liquor license after several patrons were caught smoking marijuana at one event. In the aftermath of these unpopular raids and at the urging of a grand jury , San Francisco eventually demoted and transferred the officer, and created an Entertainment Commission to replace the police department as the body to issue entertainment permits. Ultimately

121-584: The quality of the view of the stage. The seating areas can include some or all of the following: Sports venues such as stadiums and racetracks also have royal boxes or enclosures, for example at the All England Club and Ascot Racecourse , where access is limited to royal families or other distinguished personalities. In other countries, sports venues have luxury boxes , where access is open to anyone who can afford tickets. Additionally, some sports venues were themselves called auditoriums, such as

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